Calendar Map As A Richer Alternative to Line Plot

Ever seen one of those calendar heat maps? Here's how you can create one in two lines of Python code.

A calendar map offers an elegant way to visualize daily data. At times, they are better at depicting weekly/monthly seasonality in data instead of line plots. For instance, imagine creating a line plot for “Work Group Messages” above.

To create one, you can use "plotly_calplot". Its input should be a DataFrame. A row represents the value corresponding to a date.

Read more: Plotly Calplot.

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